Why Prince Harry Initially Thought Mom Princess Diana Faked Her Death

Admitting this kind of thinking went on for “many, many years,” Harry said his teenage self held onto “huge amounts of hope” that Diana was secretly alive. However, all that started to stopped when Harry turned 20 and he said he asked to see the police report of the fatal crash as “proof” of Diana’s death.

“The pictures showed the reflection of a group of photographers taking photographs through the window, and the reflection on the window was them,” he recalled, noting that he did not view the more gruesome photos from the crash site. “All I saw was the back of my mum’s head—slumped on the back seat.”

Harry also said that Diana’s death really sank in for him when he was 23, when he visited Paris for the first time and asked a driver to take him to the tunnel where the crash happened. “I wanted to see whether it was possible driving at the speed that Henri Paul was driving that you could lose control of a car and plow into a pillar killing almost everybody in that car,” he explained. “I need to take this journey. I need to ride the same route.”